By Lee Horsley (auth.)
ISBN-10: 0230218865
ISBN-13: 9780230218864
ISBN-10: 0230280757
ISBN-13: 9780230280755
What is literary noir? How do British and American noir thrillers relate to their ancient contexts? In contemplating such questions, this research levels over 1000's of novels, analysing the politics and poetics of noir from the hard-boiled fiction of Hammett, Chandler and Cain to the interesting variety of nineties thrillers, with sections at the tricky investigators, gangsters and sufferers of the melancholy years: the first-person killers, femmes fatales and black protagonists of mid-century; the game-players, voyeurs and shoppers of up to date thrillers and destiny noir.
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As readers, we cannot even feel sure that the narrator is trustworthy, since he is as likely as any other character to be guilty. In ‘Parlor Trick’, for example, we appear at first to be reading another narrative describing the entry of the narrator-protagonist into what we suppose is an alien and threatening environment. We share what we think is his shock at seeing Frank with ‘a thin knife-handle sticking out of one side of his throat’ (52). The first twist in the story comes with the revelation that the narrator himself has put the thin knife in Frank’s throat; the second reversal occurs when he has resigned himself to being taken away for execution by ‘the boys’ but finds that the gun is turned instead on one of his supposed executioners: ‘Frank’s number has been up for a long time’ and McNulty was ‘in it with him’ (61).
His detachment places him much closer to the masculine competence and ‘rightness’ of traditional detective fiction, and so moves him away from a noir sense of uncertainty. The protective presence that Marlowe establishes is above all stylistic. The witty, ironic aloofness of his narrative acts to evaluate and to contain the moral disorder of the society he investigates. When Hammett’s Op is shot in Red Harvest, he issues a declaration of war on Poisonville and on ‘fat Noonan’, the chief of police: ‘ “Now it’s my turn to run him ragged, and that’s exactly what I’m going to do.
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